User Reviews

One of the light-hearted HGWT episodes, this one features Werner Klemperer as an amazing chef. with a long-suffering wife, who insists that his restaurant needs a huge plate-glass window. Paladin is hired to see that it survives its long journey.

This will likely be the only Western we ever see that features a character who loves to break things, and lives for the sound of breaking glass. Among the farcical elements is the classic 'two men carrying imaginary glass' to fool one would-be window smasher.

The farce ends when, of course, the window is broken in the best comedic fashion. The payoff comes when, immediately thereafter, the gunfighter, the chef, and the wife climb wordlessly into the wagon - without even bothering to close the door behind them - and head off to procure another window.

Mild comedy episode with a predictably goofy ending has Paladin hired by Etiemie Ledoux ("Hogan's Heroes" star Werner Klemperer) a French chef. Ledux promises Paladin $1,000 and a meal "such as you have never eaten" if Paladin can help him get a plate-glass window from San Francisco to his restaurant in a small mining town.

Along the way they encounter hostile Indians, a rancher (William Boyett, the desk Sargent from "Adam-12") who wants the glass for his ranch house, a drunk who wants to break it because he likes breaking things, along with rough roads.

Once in town, Paladin finds more local drunks who want the joy of breaking the window, but who back off when they realize Roy (Alan Caillou) an over the top crazy wants to have the honor.

The humor is a bit obvious and cartoony in this episode (though I did enjoy hearing Boone described as "a hatchet faced gunslinger") but to me the greater problem is why a chef with such unbelievable skills (Paladin is very impressed) would want to open a french restaurant in some out of the way mining town where the rubes are entertained by breaking his glass. Surely a man that skilled would make more money and get a clientèle that would appreciate his talents better in New York or San Francisco. The locals in this town look like they find chili a delicacy.

If this was the only episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" you ever saw, I don't think you'd want to seek out another one.